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If the Coaltion succeeds in winning the election today, Warren Truss on track to be deputy prime minister. What do we know about Warren Truss? Our reporter James Glenday has some answers, he's clocked up tens of thousands of km's travelling around the country with the National Party candidates. ...

The marginal Liberal National seat of Flynn will be hotly contested with nine candidates hoping to represent the central Queensland seat. Flynn extends from Gladstone and Gayndah in the east to Emerald and the Gemfields in the west. Agriculture and mining are the major industries in the ...

Have rural voters been forgotten by both sides in the 2010 election campaign? A panel of locals from the marginal central Queensland seat of Flynn talk about the issues that will decide their vote: roads, jobs, high speed broadband and the need for a local dentist. ...

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Just five months out from the expected federal election, the race is on to find a new candidate for the high profile seat of Higgins in Melbourne's leafy inner southeast. The seat has been held by Minister for Women and Industrial Relations, Kelly O'Dwyer, who announced she's leaving politics to ...

Fighting political correctness; deciding who gets to cross our borders; keeping Australia Day on January 26. These are just some of the policies of a new Conservative activist group called Advance Australia. Its other big aim is to provide a counter movement to GetUp!, aimed at voters on the right ...

The former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has hit back at his successor after Scott Morrison ruled out sending him on any more diplomatic missions. George Brandis, the former federal Attorney-General, has confirmed that the Coalition plans to get all child asylum seekers off Nauru by the end of ...

Most federal politicians are on their way home from Canberra, with the House of Representatives on a month-long break. But as always, there's unfinished business in Canberra. Independent Kerryn Phelps appeared with the cross-bench at a press conference this week, but she hasn't yet secured a ...

Voters in former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's seat of Wentworth will head to the polls to choose a new representative on October 20th. The Speaker of the House Tony Smith announced the date on Wednesday. The Liberal Party faces an uphill battle to retain the seat, although internal polling ...